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ForwardBridging Gaps: Strengthening End-of-Life Care Through Interdisciplinary Education
2-day symposium dedicated to fostering compassionate, informed, and collaborative approaches to end-of-life care. Our mission is to bring together healthcare professionals, caregivers, patients, and community members to engage in meaningful dialogue, share best practices, and advance knowledge surrounding end-of-life issues.
Target Audience
Nurse
Nurse Practitioner
Physician
Physician Assistant
pastoral care and other community members
Learning Objectives
1. Describe ethical, legal, and cultural considerations in end-of-life care, including issues related to autonomy, truth-telling, and family-centered decision-making.
2. Apply compassionate and culturally sensitive communication strategies when discussing serious illness, goals of care, and end-of-life decision-making with patients and families.
3. Recognize the impact of grief, trauma, and bereavement on patients, families, and healthcare professionals, and identify strategies that support coping, resilience, and compassionate care. 4. Discuss interdisciplinary and emerging models of end-of-life support, including primary palliative care principles, community partnerships, and innovative approaches that enhance quality of care and patient dignity.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 12.75 contact hours.
Physician Assistant (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 12.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Social Work (ASWB)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 12.75 ethic continuing education credits
Other Healthcare Professionals: Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 12.75 AAPA Category I CME
- 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 12.75 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 12.75 Attendance